From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GBNP2-0004OF-7W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:09:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7B38Bfl027563; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:08:11 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (cumulus.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7B389lD016291 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:08:10 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.252] (220-253-102-21.TAS.netspace.net.au [220.253.102.21]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6ECC67F76 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:08:07 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <44DBF499.9010800@burnieanglican.org.au> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:08:09 +1000 From: Will Briggs User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060802) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Dell Inspiron boot on battery slowness X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8656c2ce-1617-45d6-91f4-c1c56b141de4 X-Archives-Hash: 77d3d0ab72b5ccf3943e8772731964ba G'day all, Having an interesting phenomenon when I boot my Dell Inspiron 6400 to linux without AC plugged in. The boot process is as slow as a dog, all the fans are maxed "on", and cpufrequency shifting gets stuck at 1 GHz like the governor is not working (and the slowness is more than what the cpu frequency shifting would cause). However if I boot with AC and then unplug it everything works well under battery - cpu steps up and down with demand, fans behave properly etc. I wondered at first if the BIOS switches stuff off under battery so that various modules don't load or something but there's nothing obvious in dmesg and lsmod looks fine - and I've check out BIOS settings to see if there's anything - and there isn't. Any clue where to begin diagnosing such an issue? W. -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list